Comics In Motion

Avengers Infinity War is one of the most highly anticipated movies of all time, and the next instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We spoil the heck out of this as we walk through and so if you haven’t watched it, please do watch and we’d love you to come back to this podcast later.

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Daredevil Series 1 was the first of the Netflix Defenders series and debuted in 2015. The 13 episodes take us on a journey through Matt’s origin and early days as the Guardian of Hell’s Kitchen. He goes up against a crime syndicate led by the Kingpin.

Daredevil first appeared in Daredevil #1 in 1964 and was created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, with some input on character design from Jack Kirby. Though he carried his own book for 2 decades, it was in the early 1980’s that Frank Miller truly defined the character we know today and his stories provide a significant influence on this Netflix series.

Some series details:

IMDB rating: 8.7

Rotten Tomatoes Audience: 95%

Series Creator: Drew Goddard

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Sin City was a ground breaking movie released in 2005 and brought the stories to screen like no comic book had been before!

Sin City was a series of stories written by Frank Miller and published by Dark Horse comics, starting in 1991. Frank Miller had come to prominence in the early 1980's with the Daredevil book and left an influential stamp on his character that can be seen today. He also wrote Dark Knight Returns, which is widely regarded as one of Batman's best stories. Miller's crime and noir style could be seen in these mainstream comics, but with Sin City he takes that to a new level.

The movie was primarily championed by Robert Rodriguez, who convinced Miller and also Quentin Tarantino to join him in this project to bring Sin City to the big screen. We discuss what we thought of the movie, and how it holds up years later.

Some movie details:

IMDB rating: 8.0

Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (special guest)

Writer: Frank Miller

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Generation-X was the first venture into the live action X-Men universe for Fox, and this TV movie was a whole 4 years before the 2000 X-Men movie.

Generation-X was a spin-off comic from the core X-Men books and it's first volume ran for 75 issues from 1994 to 2001. The movie was billed as a TV-pilot but was never developed into a series. The script borrows heavily from Nightmare on Elm Street and a little from the X-Men Animated Series, and characters are chosen and created very much with the budget in mind. Listen to see what we made of this first step on the way to bringing the X-Men to the big screen.

Some movie details:

IMDB rating: 4.7

Director: Jack Sholder

Writer: Eric Blakeney

Budget:$7,000,000 (estimated)

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In this episode we discuss the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie.

For Comics Background: The Batman character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in 1939 and was initially created by artist Bob Kane. For years Bob was credited as the sole creator for Batman and it wasn't until 2015, with the release of Batman Vs Superman, that Warner Bros. acknowledged Bill Finger as the co-creator. The Writer, Finger, had significant influence over the costume design including giving him his distinctive cowl, cape and gloves. Recommendations for Batman stories which have influenced this movie:

Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)

The Killing Joke (Alan Moore, Brian Bolland)

For Movie Background: The movie was hailed as both a critical and financial success, grossing over $400M at the box office. The movie could have been very different from the earlier script revisions looking at Bill Murray as Batman, Eddie Murphy as Robin and and Robin Williams as the Joker!

We take a walk through the plot and immersed into the murky world created by Burton, and atmospheric score from Danny Elfman. But does it live up to the expectations and memories we had from watching it all those years ago??

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In this episode we discuss the 2010 comic adaptation The Losers. The movie was based on Vertigo comic, written by Andy Diggle and art by Jock, ran for 32 issues from 2003 to 2006. The title and basic idea came from a World War II comic of the same name, though Diggle has said he didn't read any of the actual issues. We take a walk through the plot with this all-star cast and discuss what we thought about it.

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In this episode we discuss the 1998 TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD. Before the days of the Marvel Cinematic universe as we know it, Fox produced a straight to TV adaptation of Marvel's super spy. We discuss the comics background of the character, the writing and making of the movie, and of course the movie itself.

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In this episode we discuss the Mark Millar and Mathew Vaughn collaboration; Kingsman: The Secret Service. We discuss the origins of the comic book run, the movie production and some of the differences in the stories.

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In this episode we discuss the Marvel movie Black Panther. We discuss the characters background in the comics, the build up to the movie, and review the movie itself.

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In this episode we discuss the 1980 movie Superman II. We discuss the Golden Age of comics, the change in Directors from Donner to Lester and the possible reasons for it. And we go into an in depth review of the movie and practice our bad French accents.

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